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England in Spring

It took me twenty-eight hours to fly from Australia to England...I was there twelve nights then it was twenty-four hours (whooo hooo!) to get back.That's hardly time enough to get over the jet lag... Is it?

It was a busy, busy, busy whistle-stop* tour to catch up with family and wave off my daughter on her African adventure.Happily we also celebrated a couple of birthdays, mine included.We started with a day out in Burford, a picturesque Cotswold market town chosen for some good clothes shopping and a pub lunch.

Cotswold stone cottages in Burford

We had some lovely days out to the Cotswolds and Oxfordand stayed in Bristol, Stratford on Avon, London and I even managed to buy a house!Now that's a story I'm saving for a rainy day...Here are some of my favourite blue photos from the trip.Thatched cottages which look good at any time of year, look even better when Spring is in the air and the daffodils are dancing in the sunlight outside the front door.

Daffodils and thatched cottages, so British!

In Bristol, the Harbour is always so picturesqueWith the colourful terrace houses of Redland and the brightly painted house boats on the water.

Bristol Docklands with SS Great BritainMy eldest daughter arrived from Australia,Forty-two hours her trip took heras her flight was delayed, then eventually cancelled in Dubai!Still there was no time for her to get over her jet lag, we were straight off to London to get her visa for her new job in Africa.

The Liberian Embassy in Fitzroy Square is in the basement of an impressive London terrace houseThe house next door had a sign saying Virginia Woof lived here!There is a massive Liberian flag flying which could be easily mistaken for a US flag on first glance...

The door was propped out with a hand painted sign saying"be careful, wet paint"This was oddly reassuring, and in stark contrast to when we went to get my other daughter's visa for the US, security was so tight in Melbourne, that I stayed outside.

Liberian Embassy flying the national flag

Inside the Embassy at 2pm there was no-one.Hmmm people are obviously not queuing up to visit Liberia!My daughter gave in her passport, a letter of support from her organisation, two passport photos, One hundred and sixty pounds, yes it's not cheap to visit the second most poorest country in the world!and was told to return the next day...

The next day she collected her passport, easy and was now all ready to workin a remote community in Liberia.Our family is now spread all over the world.One in America, one in Liberia, one in England and two in AustraliaBut next week we will have four of us in New York!!I'll sing to that!

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Hello dear friends in Blogland. How are you doing?
I am pleased to be here for Friendship Friday
I've had a great week and have well and truly settled back into my Asian life
where I am enjoying making new friends both locally and in here in the blogosphere.

I've had fun, I have joined a new group - the American Women's Club of Thailand.
Why the American's when you're a British Aussie? You may well ask. Well firstly they take anyone, these Expat women's groups really are not that fussy!

Well, except for the ANZWG Group where you need to be closely associated with Australia and New Zealand. I am, I have the passport and I have a family, home and of course an Aussie Crazy Poodle Down Under and I miss my Melbourne life terribly, but my life in Thailand is more about meeting women from around the globe.

I have always had lots of American friends, I chat with many Americans via my blog...

... anyway they let this little bird in and she's chirpy about that! The…